Ancient Ryukyu : An Archaeological Study of Island Communities /

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Who are the people of the Ryukyu Islands? How could they survive and prosper on small, isolated islands? How did the independent Ryukyu Kingdom become a major player in East Asian medieval trade? Ancient Ryukyu explores 30,000 years of human occupation in the Ryukyu Islands, from the earliest human...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pearson, Richard J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Antiquities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Japan > Ryukyu Islands.
Ryūkyū (Japon) > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1879.
Ryukyu Islands > Antiquities.
Ryukyu Islands > History > To 1879.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the archaeology of Ryukyu islanders
  • The active environment of the Ryukyus
  • Pleistocene inhabitants
  • Arriving and settling : island hunter-gatherer colonization and interaction
  • Surviving in the archipelago : island hunter-gatherer subsistence
  • Exchange networks and the lure of tropical shells
  • The Gusuku period (AD 1050 to 1429) : a new order
  • Ryukyu trade in the Gusuku and early Ryukyu kingdom periods
  • The early Ryukyu Kingdom (AD 1429 to 1609)
  • Discussion and conclusions.

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